How To Train Your Dragon

From the studio that brought you “Shrek,” “Madagascar” and “Kung Fu Panda” comes “How to Train Your Dragon.” Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, and based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the action comedy tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking teenager who doesn’t exactly fit in with his tribe’s longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. Hiccup’s world is turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges he and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view.

Opens March 26th.

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The Bounty Hunter

Milo Boyd (Gerard Butler), a down-on-his-luck bounty hunter, gets his dream job when he is assigned to track down his bail-jumping ex-wife, reporter Nicole Hurly (Jennifer Aniston). He thinks all that’s ahead is an easy payday, but when Nicole gives him the slip so she can chase a lead on a murder cover-up, Milo realizes that nothing ever goes simply with him and Nicole. The exes continually one-up each other – until they find themselves on the run for their lives. They thought their promise to love, honor and obey was tough – staying alive is going to be a whole lot tougher. Andy Tennant (Hitch, Sweet Home Alabama) directs.

Opens Friday March 19th.

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Who was 2009’s One2Watch4?

Happy 2010 to all! While 2009 was great for our site we are eagerly looking towards the future and discovering new talent.  That being said, we want to take one look back and anoint one special actor as 2009’s top  One2Watch4. January’s poll is comprised of all the winners from the monthly polls last year.  Your job is to select from among the 12 equally wonderful gentlemen and decide who is deserving of the Blue Ribbon prize.  It’s an important task that we know you are all capable of.  It may require one more look at their individual profiles or photo galleries. That’s the price we pay for democracy. Thank you and God bless!

Win a Date with Gerard Butler!!

Kids Kicking Cancer and Gerard Butler Dot Net Charity Group are giving fans the opportunity to win a date with Gerard Butler.  Other prizes including set visits, movie premiere tickets, owning an article of Gerry’s clothing and autographed pictures are also up for grabs.  Click the banner below for more info!!

Review – Law Abiding Citizen

Another Gerard Butler movie? How many is that this year? Three? Does it sound like I’m complaining? I’m not, because this is the best one of the lot! Read more

Law Abiding Citizen

From the official site – When a home invasion robbery turns deadly, the lone survivor will stop at nothing to avenge his lost loved ones in LAW ABIDING CITIZEN, an explosive examination of blind justice from the director of The Italian Job.

Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) is an upstanding family man whose wife and daughter are brutally murdered during a home invasion.  When the killers are caught, Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx), a hotshot Philadelphia prosecutor, is assigned to the case. Nick offers one of the suspects a light sentence in exchange for testifying against his accomplice.

Fast forward ten years. The man who got away with murder is found dead and Clyde Shelton coolly admits his guilt. Then he issues a warning to Nick: Either fix the flaws of the failed justice system that failed his family, or key players in the trial will die.

Soon Shelton follows through on his threats, orchestrating from his jail cell a string of spectacularly diabolical assassinations that can neither be predicted or prevented. Philadelphia is gripped with fear as Shelton’s high-profile targets are slain one after another and the authorities are powerless to halt his reign of terror. Only Nick can stop the killing, and to do so he must outwit this brilliant sociopath in a harrowing contest of wills in which even the smallest misstep means death. With his own family now in Shelton’s cross hairs, Nick finds himself in a desparate race against time facing a deadly adversary who always seems to be one step ahead.

Opens October 16th.

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Gamer

From the official site: Gamer is a high-concept action thriller set in a near future when gaming and entertainment have evolved into a terrifying new hybrid. Humans control other humans in mass-scale, multi-player online games: people play people… for keeps. Mind-control technology is widespread, and at the heart of the controversial games is its creator, reclusive billionaire, Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall). His latest brainchild, the first-person shooter game “Slayers”, allows millions to act out their most savage fantasies online in front of a global audience, using real prisoners as avatars with whom they fight to the death.

Kable (300’s Gerard Butler) is the superstar and cult hero of the ultraviolent “Slayers”. Kable is controlled by Simon, a young gamer with rock star status who continues to defy all odds by guiding Kable to victory each week.Taken from his family, inprisoned and forced to fight against his will, the modern day gladitor must survive long enough to escape the game to free his family, regain his identity and save the mankind from Castle’s ruthless technology.

Gamer stars Gerard Butler (300, The Ugly Truth), Michael C. Hall (“Dexter”), Amber Valetta (Transporter 2), John Leguizamo (Righteous Kill, Assualt on Precinct 13) and Kyra Sedwick (“The Closer”).

Lionsgate and Lakeshore Entertaiment present a Lakeshore Entertainment/Lionsgate Production. Gamer is a Neveldine/Taylor film.

Opens September 4th.

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Confessions of a Grown Up Fan Girl

I am sure many of you are wondering what exactly the purpose of this website/blog is supposed to be. Who needs yet another entertainment website right? Well, it was conceived quite a few years ago as a playground for a group of friends to share our latest obsessions in actors, movies, television and music. We thought maybe we would get a few interviews with those we like along the way (which we did). That was, almost 8 years ago, and throughout that time, the site went dormant during various periods of real life interference. We were much younger then.  Life was bright and we were having fun. What more of an excuse did we need?

Now, life is different.  Some of us have faced some real life changes (unemployment, divorce, new babies), but through all of that, our obsessions remained, we just never had the time to share them. The intense attraction to our pop culture world where the “beautiful people” still make us dream, laugh and cry through the characters they create and the talent they possess.  Maybe now, more than ever, we need that distraction to forget the struggles we all face and it was time to bring the site back to life.  What we watch on TV and in the theaters and what we listen to is an escape and our likes and dislikes can reflect or deflect our current moods and life situations.

As I considered what to write in this week’s blog, I thought back to Comic-Con 2008. I remembered the reaction of fans to movies and television shows I knew nothing about and enjoyed the panels on those and the projects I actually had an interest in. I remembered the giddy excitement of a good friend as she met someone she had admired for a long time and her rush to tell her husband with the biggest of smiles on her face. I realized that we all have a little fan girl in us (even though I really, really wish there was another term we could use other than “fan”) and that’s OK.  It is fun and exciting to escape the mundane for even just a few days, along with the chance to down margaritas with some really great people.

So, as I grow older, I have come to realize these things:

1. That I will always be fascinated by the talent actors, writers, directors and others have in creating the films we get excited about and anticipate to see. That their experience in making the films, for the most part, is as personal as our experience in watching a story that touches us whether it is in sorrow, laughter, awe or reflection.
2. That every artist can get overwhelmed by fan enthusiasm and I am capable of seeing them as human beings and not just idols in the midst of the chaos.  That I will always  be interested in hearing what they have to say about their work  and can appreciate the impossible situations they sometimes face.
3. That Gerard Butler will continue to amaze me with his talent, tolerance and ability to rise to meet every challenge with determination and passion.  I will always be in his corner.
4. That, when I am channel surfing the 700 channels on television, I am incapable of surfing past Ocean’s 11, Ocean’s 13 (let’s just forget Ocean’s 12 was ever made shall we?), Transformers, Music & Lyrics, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Love Actually and a variety of other films I somehow can’t scroll through, no matter how mediocre they may be.
5. That my husband has major crushes on both Will Smith and Megan Fox and I am OK with that.  He also really liked Dracula 2000, for which I forgive him. 
6. That Hugh Jackman will always make me jump from my seat and momentarily “lose it” when I’m in his presence, much to my adult embarrassment.
7. That Luke Goss, despite having already endured one career with an unsettling fanatical following, can embrace another with the message in every note to his fans to “Be Kind” delivered with a smile and a gentle aura of genuine appreciation. I don’t think I have ever met a more gentle soul, apart from Gerry Butler.
8. That I will forever have a weakness for actor/musicians, no matter their age, probably because they possess twice the talent I wish I had.
9. That I am doomed to exposure to my teen daughter’s current obsessions, resulting in my actually LIKING some of them for vastly different reasons than she does much to her dismay.  Yet, that’s the joy of being a parent right?  Torturing those that torture you?
10. That my taste in music will forever be a reflection of my own personal soundtrack in my mind, depending on my mood, along with my constant desire to drive REALLY fast and the restraint required to not be that stupid.  It may not be hip or terribly exciting, but it’s all mine!

So, this site is for anyone who wants to gush, be giddy, get excited and share their current entertainment passions with the world without embarrassment.  Send us your recommendations.  If you are lucky to attend a premiere, awards shows or fan convention,  share your pictures.  Post your comments about the music, actors and films we profile. Vote in the polls.

We want everyone to enjoy this blog with just one thing in mind…be kind and have fun.

The Ugly Truth

From the official site: The battle of the sexes heats up in Columbia Pictures’ comedy The Ugly Truth. Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is a romantically challenged morning show producer whose search for Mr. Perfect has left her hopelessly single. She’s in for a rude awakening when her bosses team her with Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), a hardcore TV personality who promises to spill the ugly truth on what makes men and women tick. Read more

Actor2Watch4 January Vote

So, get your clicking fingers out and VOTE! This month’s poll is below.

Each Month, we will put your voice to a vote on who should be our “Actor2Watch4″ for that month. At the end of the year, all the monthly winners will be entered in our end of the year vote.

RockNRolla

In theatres on October 31

When a Russian mobster orchestrates a crooked land deal, millions of dollars are up for grabs, and all of London’s criminal underworld wants in on the action. Everyone from a dangerous crime lord to a sexy accountant, a corrupt politician and down-on-their-luck petty thieves conspire, collude and collide with one another in an effort to get rich quick. Read more

Gerard Butler

This Scottish almost-lawyer traded in his higher education to pursue acting, little did he know that he would fall into some plum roles and STILL not be recognized.

Leading off with small roles in British TV and stage productions, Gerard Butler found himself playing one of the most feared warriors in history for the USA Network production of Attila and then followed up with donning black to play the seductive, yet dialogue challenged, Count Dracula in Wes Craven’s Dracula 2000 (or Dracula 2001 depending on where you live).

Follow that with slaying dragons alongside Christian Bale and Matthew McConnaughey in Disney’s multi-million dollar Reign of Fire and one would think…..what next? That’s easy — a Granada Television British mini-series The Jury and a trip back to 14th century France in Richard Donner’s production of Michael Crichton’s Timeline as its hero Andre Marek. He found himself opposite Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider 2 and cast as the masked madman in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Phantom of the Opera. Not bad for a lawyer.

Since then, he has risen to international fame with his turn as Spartan King Leonidas in 300, the dead husband opposite Hilary Swank in PS, I Love You, a father and a hero in Nim’s Island and starring roles in the  films, Game, RockNRolla,  The Ugly Truth and Law Abiding Citizen. How can he NOT be a one2watch4?

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Gerard Butler This or That

Harry or Gandalf?

Gandalf. (He hated Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone with a vengeance.) {Editor’s note: gotta love a man with discriminating taste}

Timeline or Timewarp?

Timeline. (Filming is slated to being this spring in Montreal. But would he sport fishnets and stilettos if asked?) Read more